VISCOUNT BRYCE

The death of Viscount Bryce will be keenly felt wherever high ideals, brilliant intellect, and the finest kind of public service are held in esteem. It will be felt especially in America, where his efforts as Ambassador from Great Britain have brought about the best relations between the two countries. The University has a special cause for grief; Viscount Bryce has always been a loyal sympathizer with higher education in general, as well as a warm friend of Harvard. Those who were privileged to hear him speak at the Union last fall, were impressed not only with the broad scholarship of a man who could write two such authoritative works as his have become, at the wide interval of half a century; they were impressed also with his warmth, his sincerity, and the keenness of his desire for better international relations and for a higher type of men to serve in public affairs--example. May his ideals live after him and bear fruit in the coming generation, a type of which he himself was the best